Banners with the NATO logo in front of the headquarters in BrusselsMOSCOW, May 18Croatian President Zoran Milanovic intends to send a letter with instructions to the republic's ambassador to NATO, Mario Nobilo, to vote against the entry of Finland and Sweden into the alliance until the electoral legislation is changed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, writes the Croatian edition N1. «I am ready for accusations if they follow. I have already stated that the Croats in Bosnia are more important to me than the entire Russian-Finnish border,» the President said.Erdogan forces Finland and Sweden to public humiliation Milanovich cited Turkey as an example, which, in his opinion, «knows how to defend its national interests.» He also added that the interests of Ukraine are not an acute problem for Zagreb. He noted that Croatia's refusal to ratify the agreement will draw the attention of the international community to Croatian interests in Bosnia and Herzegovina, saying that this is the only way to solve the problem of the rights of Croats in this country. Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlich-Radman called Milanovic's plan «blackmail» and «a non-European way to solve the problem». NATOEarlier, the Financial Times reported that Turkey blocked the start of the process of considering the application for Finland and Sweden to join NATO. Prior to this, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he could not support the inclusion of Sweden and Finland in the military bloc, since in this case the organization would become «a place where there will be many representatives of terrorists.» He recalled that Ankara demanded from Stockholm and Helsinki to extradite 33 representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party and FETO, but was refused. Russia has repeatedly noted that NATO is aimed at confrontation. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that further expansion of the alliance would not bring greater security to Europe, NATO has an aggressive character. At the same time, he noted that he does not consider the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO an existential threat to Russia.
